M-Hub Tour at Pittards

Your invitation to book your place on our M-Hub tour.

Pittards - Makers of innovative performance leathers and beautiful leather goods since 1826.

Established in the UK in 1826, Pittards is still headquartered in its original Yeovil, Somerset home town. This is the R&D hub of the business, complete with on-site test facilities and Pittards world-leading, innovative technologies are developed here. The tannery has a versatile manufacturing capability for sectors that include gloving, footwear, automotive and interiors. We also make our own fine leather goods here in the UK and have additional capacity for third party work.

It has tanneries in the UK and Ethiopia as well as finished product facilities in both divisions, that provide its partners with vertical manufacturing solutions. Pittards leathers performance leathers have been developed and tested in some of the world's most extreme conditions from round-the-world ocean racing to Himalayan expeditions. It is this commitment to ongoing innovation that puts our leather in military and ice climbing gloves, hiking boots, endurance and mountain biking gloves and footwear and on the hands and feet of the world's leading golf and baseball players.

M-Hub factory tours are arranged solely for manufacturing businesses and related businesses which deliver direct service and support to the manufacturing sector.  If you have any questions, please email president@yeovilchamber.org

Current Covid regulations allow a maximum of twelve individuals on our factory tours.

Agenda

• 1400 - Arrive
• 1400 - 1430 - Welcomes and introduction
• 1430 - 1500 - Presentation from John Loxton
• 1500 - 1600 - Site tour
• 1600 - 1630 - Q&A, Discussion and close

Guests will need to:

• Complete a Covid questionnaire on arrival
• Confirm they have either taken a lateral flow test (& negative) in the previous 3 days or take one arrival.

All those attending are asked to bring their own PPE, as well as (if they have their own) appropriate footwear, hi-vis jackets, safety glasses and hard hats. 

All places are free of charge for this tour, but space is currently limited to a maximum of twelve attendees, due to Covid restrictions

Location: Pittards plc, Sherborne Road, Yeovil BA21 5BA